Need extra socket in bedroom, take cable outside?

Owain_Moneysaver

Slightly unconventional, but it's regulations-compliant if suitable cable is used, and a way of getting cable to a location without disrupting interior decor.

longwalks1

Thanks everyone, some good points. now just got to decide...

Jonesya

I may have missed it, but why can't you carefully chase out the wall and run it internally? Cover the floor and wood work, take it steady to keep the dust down. Neatest solution.

If that's too disruptive, could you use some cosmetic trunking like D-Line?

http://www.d-line-it.co.uk/in-the-home

Prothet_of_Doom

I went to look at a ground floor flat the other day that had be rewired on the cheap. All the cables were run INSIDE using square Plastic Conduit. It was clearly safe, and done by a competent person, but obviously down to a price. I've have been cutting slots in the plaster, and in the concrete floors, and making good afterwards.

brightontraveller

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

Slightly unconventional, but it's regulations-compliant if suitable cable is used, and a way of getting cable to a location without disrupting interior decor.

Thats a matter of what regs and how you interpretate them? e.g Building Regulations 2000, Approved Document C, 2004 Edition, Section 5: Walls, paragraph 5.13 b would disagree? Guidance from ESC is "undesirable practice" ditto NHBC because the client didn't wish to disrupt interior decor wouldn't count as a exceptable exclusion.

thescouselander

Just do it properly and put it under the floorboards. It's not that hard to cut through the sheet boarding with the right tools.

I'd find yourself a other sparky though because if they're not confident they know what they're doing they can end up cutting through things under the board such as heating pipes.

Le_Kirk

TheCyclingProgrammer wrote: »

A drilled water pipe will make a mess but it's not going to give you a potentially fatal shock.

.......... unless there's a mains cable in there as well, which might/could be drilled at the same time. Huge stretch of coincidence though and just more proof (if any were needed) that it is not a good idea to put utilities behind/in skirting boards.

Risteard

brightontraveller wrote: »

Thats a matter of what regs and how you interpretate them? e.g Building Regulations 2000, Approved Document C, 2004 Edition, Section 5: Walls, paragraph 5.13 b would disagree? Guidance from ESC is "undesirable practice" ditto NHBC because the client didn't wish to disrupt interior decor wouldn't count as a exceptable exclusion.

No-one is talking about bridging the cavity?

Head_The_Ball

27cool wrote: »

...I live a a fairly large house that I built myself. It has many, many feet of skirting board. In the 39 years that we have lived here there has never, ever, been a need to put a nail or a screw into any part of the skirting boards.
Even if you did need to put in a screw, you would be aware that there was a cable in the area, because you would have seen it bring installed.

Our 2004 built house has spring door stops screwed into the skirting.

I mostly agree with you but you could sell your house and someone could perhaps want to fit similar door stops or something else.

getmore4less

britishboy wrote: »

We need another double socket fitting in our bedroom, just above the skirting board about 3m along from an existing one......

Have any other possible routing been considered from other locations